Published in An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)·Sep 30, 2020Member-only8 Composition Techniques That Will Make You a Photography ProMastering the craft of photography takes a lot of work, but the rules to create a beautiful photo are actually quite simple. Let the world’s greatest painters teach you the simple art of image composition. Author Malcolm Gladwell said in his 2008 book Outliers that it takes 10,000 hours of…Photography12 min readPhotography12 min read
Sep 17, 2020Member-onlyThe Book List To Replace Your Marketing Education14 books and three months of reading followed up by targeted practice can advance your career further than a master’s degree in marketing. Education needs to be disrupted. Marketing is a good place to start. Marketing is not an art, talent and intuition are not mandatory to excel in the…Marketing18 min readMarketing18 min read
Aug 3, 2020Member-onlyBecoming a super learner (and worker) with Jim KwikIn his book “Limitless”, learning expert Jim Kwik shows the best techniques to improve your learning ability without limits. I looked at the best tips to become a super learner. — “Everyone’s a genius. But if you judge a fish by how well he can climb a tree, he’ll think he’s stupid all his life.” — Albert Einstein Jim Kwik was the kid with the broken head. After a serious accident, the boy had difficulty learning, was not attentive and could…Learning10 min readLearning10 min read
Published in The Startup·Jul 31, 2020Member-onlyHow to Hubspot If You Have Little MoneyCreating an automated marketing campaign without a “big” suite. — We implemented an automated marketing campaign and replaced Hubspot with a mix of 10 individual tools and a handmade process, reducing the subscription cost by 90%. Here’s how it worked. We planned a campaign for a free and transparent micro-donation platform — think Patreon with cents — that has both…Marketing9 min readMarketing9 min read
Published in Good Audience·Oct 2, 2019Member-onlyWould Triple Entry Accounting Have Saved Thomas Cook?The world’s leading tourism corporation filed for liquidation after years of accounting malpractice. A new accounting technology might have prevented that. On June 9th 1841, Baptist priest Thomas Cook set out to walk from Market Harborough to Leicester (15 miles) to attend a Temperance Society meeting in the town. On…Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Jun 24, 2019Lessons for Software Developers Applying for JobsI had the exciting experience of recruiting three software developers for my blockchain startup tender.buzz. I received about 150 applications for each position and realized that there is quite some competition out there. I want to share my conclusions to help you stick out from the crowd and land your dream job. I will share some things that you don’t find in the usual how-to-apply articles. 1. Understand the recruiter’s positionJob Hunting6 min readJob Hunting6 min read
Published in The Startup·Dec 10, 2018Member-onlyBitcoin & AI: Trap for Sex TraffickersRebecca Portnoff from Berkley University created an algorithm that can track sex traffickers with the help of Bitcoin. Many prostitutes do not offer their services voluntarily. They are often abducted, sold and forced into prostitution. This range of services is shifting more and more to the Internet in order to offer the prostitutes convenient and secure access to human goods. …Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Nov 26, 2018How to Write a Killer HeadlineDid my headline get you interested? I sincerely hope so, otherwise, I could not fulfill the promise. Although rules should always be broken, it is good to know them to begin with. For this article, I have looked for people smarter than me who could explain what I did for…Content Marketing7 min readContent Marketing7 min read
Published in Good Audience·Nov 24, 2018Member-onlyThe 12 Golden Rules of Crypto TradingI have collected the best wisdom from countless books on trading, sifted them through the strainer and used them to bake the 12 golden rules. 1. There is no win-win situation Think back to the seesaw on the schoolyard. Two children rock up and down. There are two states. Either one child is up and the other is down. Or they balance themselves in the middle under a lot of strain. That’s how trading works. Sometimes nothing happens and the courses…Trading6 min readTrading6 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Nov 19, 2018The Need & the Folly of Bitcoin as Payment MethodWill Bitcoin prevail as a means of payment and in which areas? Let’s first look at what Bitcoin sets out to replace: Credit cards. The process of paying by credit card for online purchases is more complicated than customers usually think. The procedure is the following: • Customer orders in the online shop with a credit card. • The online shop forwards the data to a payment gateway. • This is software that processes…Bitcoin6 min readBitcoin6 min read
